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Shabby Worn Adjective Describes Brother ʃæbi Clothes 你的衣服看起来很寒酸

Front shabby
Pron ['ʃæbi]
Back 【SHABBY】
You look rather shabby in those clothes.
你的衣服看起来很寒酸。
【重点词汇】
shabby adj. 简陋的 同: worn
Vocab
shabbyshowing signs of wear and tear

The adjective shabby describes something that is threadbare or worn out. Your last apartment was clean, but the furniture and carpets were so shabby that you were embarrassed to invite your friends over.

The adjective shabby also describes a manner of acting that is mean or contemptible. If you spent your whole childhood treating your younger brother in a shabby way, you can't expect him to be your friend when you're older. In modern slang, if you say something is "not too shabby," you mean that it was good. You might compliment your brother by telling him his soda can sculpture isn't too shabby.

All forms of 'shabby' will appear on average once every 680 pages.
shabbily
shabbiness
shabby

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